Shortcuts to success, 2nd Edition

46 MAKE MEETINGS PRODUCTIVE

Nobody wants to sit through a meeting and feel it was pointless, so why is up to half of the time attendees spend in meetings wasted?⁸³ It demoralises your team and is unproductive. Putting some thought into the objectives and format of your meeting in advance will allow you to get the most out of your attendees’ time.

THE DAILY COCKTAIL PARTY

The Swedish police investigation support project, PUST (Polisens Utredningsstöd) ran along Agile lines and involved daily stand up meetings. However, with a team of around 60 people, the meetings became difficult to manage. The project team managed to get round this by splitting ...